Crohn's Disease & Ulcerative Colitis Support Group

Crohn's disease is a systemic inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) of unknown cause, that results in chronic inflammation of the intestinal tract. It can affect the entire gastrointestinal tract from mouth to anus, and can also cause complications outside of the gastrointestinal tract. There is no known medical or surgical cure for Crohn's disease, but there are many medical...

relatives

i was just woundering if many people have relative also with crohns as they say its a heredatory thing .. i have two cousins and a second cousin with it one was diagnosed when she was ten and just had anouther surgery to get some more bowel removed she now only has about quarter of her bowel left.

My mom exhibits alot of the symptoms of Crohn's however she refuses to get any testing done. We dont know about anyone else in the family who has it. Unfortunately my oldest son is scheduled for a colonoscopy and endoscope the Dr. thinks that he might have crohns as well. Im hoping and praying that he doesnt.

My grandmother had it, I have it and I have a cousin that has it. I fear that my 22 year old son may have it, at least he has the signs of it, he won't go through the test. I did get him to go to my doctor but he wouldn't follow through on the rest. I pray so hard that he doesn't develope any more signs, he is such a private person he won't talk about it.

Yes, my specialist nurse said it is hereditary....though my bros doc ( hes had some probs but noth crohns) he told my bro that theres very little chance that him and my other bro will get it now that i have!
I worry that i may pass it down to my children though!
I dont know of anyone in my family that have had crohns or UC...im the *lucky* one! lol

No one on my Mom's side has any IBD. There is a lot of immune disorders thought like rheumatoid arthrits and scarcadosis and stuff. I don't know about my bio father or his side, I wonder if I got it from them.

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